Star Trek: Voyager - False Colors (One Shot) (Wildstorm/2000)

 

Nathan Archer (w) Jeffrey Moy with Philip Moy (a)

One of my favourite Star Trek franchises was Voyager and the sight of Seven of Nine gracing the cover of any comic was enough for a fanboy like me to pick up a copy. In fact this was the first Star Trek Comic I ever purchased having only just returned to the hobby after nearly a ten year gap. 

This was also Wildstorm's first Star Trek comic as DC had decided to give the newly reacquired franchise to their newly purchased imprint. Jim Lee had left Image for a better deal at DC and taken his studio and properties with him. Wildstorm had a reputation for good art and story telling though the acquisition of Jim Lee's talent was no doubt a major factor in DC's decision.

Produced in a "Prestige Format" this one-off tale of Voyager was a well written & illustrated foray into the world of Star Trek: Voyager and really had the feel of the show. Having purchased this and last read some twenty years ago I had forgotten the story which had at it's core the Borg and Seven taking the lead.

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Voyager encounters a debris field of wrecked spaceships and there's more. Something indicates the presence of the Borg but something isn't quite right. Deciding to flee before any further encounter with their worst nightmare the crew find themselves trapped in a stasis beam emanating from a giant ship that is Borg and isn't at the same time.

There are two hours before their shields exhaust and the ship will be boarded so Seven along with Chakoyay and Tuvak disguise themselves as Borg and enter the alien vessel where they encounter aliens also posing as Borg. Seven manages to scare the proverbial out of their opponents who think they are facing the real deal and flee.

It turns out the ship is controlled by pirates who salvaged parts of a Borg ship for their own use but do not realise that these components are gradually asserting their identity which Seven takes advantage of. In the ensuing battle the Borg fragments separated and the pirates are beaten. Seven has to be forcibly severed from the Borg machinery before Voyager can make good it's escape.

The Borg are coming and the pirates find themselves at their mercy long after Voyagers departure. 

This time assimilation will be real....